PreviewsIssue 85, Fall/Winter 2024-25
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Colours in Her Hands
Alice Zorn
Mina, a young woman with Down Syndrome, is at the centre of this novel about family, art, and the labels that society puts on those who are different. It also follows Bruno, her brother and legal guardian; Gabriela, Bruno’s partner; and Iris, a clothing designer who recognizes and supports Mina’s textile art, especially her use of colour in embroidery and knitting.
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Conceivable
A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family
Laine Halpern Zisman, Kelsy Vivash (Illustrator)
This practical guide to navigating the politics, challenges, choices, and opportunities in 2SLGBTQ+ fertility, conception, and family building in Canada is for birthing parents, non-gestational parents, families seeking a surrogate or donor, and those who do not yet know what they need, and it includes illustrations, worksheets, and activities.
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Corridor to Nightmare
Dave Duncan
Never before published, this final fantasy novel of the beloved author who died in 2018 follows Agatha, who is looking forward to retiring after 40 years of teaching. However, a stranger arrives and drags her through a portal to another world, one steeped in magic and violence.
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Cousin Bear Comes to Visit
Exploring themes of family, nostalgia, and grief, this graphic novel introduces readers to Francis the Bear, who is preparing for a visit and catch-up with her cousin. After a lovely day together, Francis discovers Cousin’s secret.
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Cradle’s End
Lovern Kindzierski, John Bolton (Illustrator)
In this latest instalment of the dark fantasy series, Hope and Merritt journey deeper into Cradle to heal the wound that could allow the demons of hell into the world, while Shame tries to recover her powers and free herself and her allies. Will Hope and Merritt stop Shame in time to save the world?
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Dear Da-Lê
A Father’s Memoir of the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution
Anh Duong
In this intense memoir, a Vietnamese father tells his daughter about the traumas of his childhood in war-torn Vietnam and his years as a refugee in revolutionary Iran. He breaks a lifetime of silence when in 2012, his daughter is involved in student protests, and he feels the need to show her how activism can turn into violence.
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Digital Memory Agents in Canada
Performance, Representation, and Culture
Matthew Cormier (Editor), Amanda Spallacci (Editor)
Embracing interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors explore how digital media, like memories, can transcend space and time to affect individuals and communities, and how digital traces of counter-memories – the stories that society has historically and presently tried to silence – leave their mark on various cultures, policies, and ideologies in Canada.
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Doing Democracy Differently
Indigenous Rights and Representation in Canada and Latin America
Roberta Rice
Based on the structured, focused comparison of four success stories from across Northern Canada, Bolivia, and Ecuador, this book provides real-world examples of how Indigenous autonomy and self-determination may be successfully advanced using existing democratic mechanisms.
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Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock
Jaspreet Singh
Exploring language – the power of sound, silence, translation – climate, migration, and deep time, including this current Anthropocene, these poems weave the personal, local, global, and geologic to give a clear-eyed but also a wonderstruck and hopeful vision of the world today and in the future.
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Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster
Damian Tarnopolsky
Moving from 1980s England to Renaissance France to present-day Canada to a world yet to come, these linked short stories connect to and reflect back on each other to mirror the complexities of self in time and in relationship with others, presenting a variety of voices, nuanced perspectives, and often dark, sometimes sweet, situations.
